For this course you will complete a comprehensive assignment that will bring together all of your learning – addressing standards, technology, academic vocabulary, differentiation, assessment, and more. You will work on a portion of this each week throughout the course. A cumulative version will be compiled as new information is added to the file through a shared Google Drive Folder.

Samples of each assignment will be in our shared Google Drive folder

Assignment 1 - Central Focus Concept Outline



Math Flipbooks K-8

These are extremely helpful for completing the academic vocabulary, rationale for activities & common misconceptions part of your lesson plans. They also "unpack" each common core math standard and explain them fully.
http://www.katm.org/baker/pages/common-core-resources.php

Assignment 2 - Unpack Central Focus - Template and sample in Shared Google Drive


Assignment 3 - Technology Integration

Template and Example provided in Your Google Drive

Virtual Manipulatives

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/
NCTM Illuminations Interactives - http://illuminations.nctm.org/Games-Puzzles.aspx
Project Interactivate Activities - http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
Computing Technology for Math Excellence http://www.ct4me.net/math_manipulatives.htm
Maths File Gameswheel - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html

Also Google Search... iPad App: Your topic OR Virtual Manipulative (applet): Your topic

Assignment 4 - Academic Vocabulary and Supports


Activating Strategies -
http://www.gcasd.org/Downloads/Activating_Strategies.pdf
Academic Language Toolkit

Granite School District- Excellent site for strategies for building academic vocabulary and includes a tab with academic vocabulary for Common Core Math by Grade level
http://www.graniteschools.org/mathvocabulary/

Assignment 5 - Differentiated Instruction

Assignment Sheet

Differentiated Instruction Wikispace
https://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/

Several Resources are also linked in our Drive

Assignment 6 - Assessment

Assignment Sheet

Concept Cartoons - Article and examples

Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques Template
http://uncoveringstudentideas.org/templates
Math Tasks
https://commoncoremathtn.wikispaces.com/Mathematical+Tasks